We must tear down our state’s corrupt edifice of occupational licensing and regulation and replace it with sensible rules and structures that, without any genuine risk to public safety, will both expand economic opportunity for enterprising Oklahomans and benefit consumers.

President Barack Obama recently proposed an important revision of the regulations governing which employees are eligible to receive overtime pay. If implemented, this new rule will harm consumers, workers, and even the very people it is intended to help.

Pundits can’t resist joking that the Affordable Care Act should have been called the Unaffordable Care Act. What isn’t funny is that President Obama’s scheme really is causing destructive increases in the cost of health insurance.

Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion in King v. Burwell is a prime example of how the disease of judicial imperialism has weakened the foundations of both our constitutional structure of government and the rule of law.

The ruthless attrition of time has deprived conservatives of their great inspirational leaders, like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Yet it has also cost them the experience and wisdom of the indispensable policy experts and public servants who crafted the plans to bring the leaders’ vision to life and then skillfully executed them.